Day 4: Chinatown, RFD, Busboys & Poets, Saint-ex and Brickskeller

By Greg B. For lunch today, we ate at the Szechuan House (748 6th st NW Washington DC).  Minimal food to order from at first, though if you want there is a menu you can order from.  We opted to eat the lunch species, which were rather cheap (plate o’ food and a drink, $6).  Not bad Chinese, not amazing either, but a good quick meal.  Later on though, after yet another long day of science lectures, posters, meetings and chatting about grant money, post-doctoral research and various elements of methodology of research, I needed a beer.  So, I took a stroll with Gabi down to R.F.D., a bar I had seen while in China town that had a ton of beer taps in the window on display. Read more

Oktoberfest & Other Assorted Beers for Tasting

By Greg B. Last week my labmates and I sat down for a little beer tasting of Oktoberfest styled beers. Since tasting some very good Dogfish head IPAs, notably the 60 minute, they have been very eager to try new beers and explore what this other side of the alcohol spectrum has to offer. After a few weeks of letting them sample various hoppy beers I decided that, being oktober, they should try some oktoberfest styled beers, which are very different in nature than the hoppy IPA styled ales. Essentially, both beers can start in similar styles, with pale and amber malts, but the oktoberfest style really emphasises the malt aspect and not the hoppy profiles. Read more

Italian Beer Tasting and Stump Jump Wine Tasting

By Greg B. So I traveled down to the Perfect Pour to check out an Italian beer tasting, once again bringing my labmates with me.  In this post, I’ll start with the beers, then move onto the wines.  Why, you ask?  Because I left any real good reliable note-taking material in the lab, so my notes are scattered and extremely illegible, even by my standards.  So here we go, Italian Beers! Read more

Otter Creek Brewery

I tasted some beers they had available at the Perfect Pour on Saturday and wanted to give you all a run down, since fall is upon us and this is classic beer drinking time, everyone needs to be properly informed on what to drink!

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Annapolis Homebrew Tasting

I have to give a tip o’ the hat to Shar, for organizing this little fiesta.  He arranged several of his friends to get together, bring some food and their home brews and drink and talk about beer.  Rarely in the history of mankind as a more simple, yet elegant and functional idea been had.  This having been said, the tasting went extremely well, and I feel (without spilling all the beans already!) that another one should be in the works for a few months from now, after more beer has been brewed. Read more

A great new liquor store

On Saturday, 9/6, I headed down to Elkridge on a tip from a local beer expert that there is a new store with a fantastic selection of hard to find beers, in particular Belgian ales that cannot normally be found out side of Belgium! The liquor store is “the perfect pour” . It is in this shopping plaza at the intersection of 175 and 95, and though it is hard to find (the perfect pour name isn’t on the storefront, it just says ‘liquor’ or something) it is well worth the effort.

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